bazzargh

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by bazzargh 13y ago
PCI compliance already exists, as a counterexample.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
You're assuming the product is slow because of the calculations and not because of UI implementation. You're also assuming that the calculations are extremely complicated, by todays standards. People are doing pretty much the sa
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FFmpeg, compiled into JavaScript and running in your browser(devcomo.2013.nodeknockout.com)
5 points by bazzargh 13y ago|0 comments
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Someone posted similar js when this xkcd was discussed yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6696355 ), but also missed that js lets you grab nodesets using xpaths directly: var snap = document.evaluate('&
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by bazzargh 13y ago
There was one lethal attack on the mainland - a fire balloon bomb. 6 people were killed. But yes, not on the same scale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon#Single_lethal_atta...
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by bazzargh 13y ago
There's a native way to avoid that recursion. var snap = document.evaluate('//text()', document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null ); for (var i=0;i<snap.snapshotLength;i++){t=snap.snapshot
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by bazzargh 13y ago
There's a long history of being able to search google for sites with vulnerabilities or infections if you know what to look for. With a black hat on, alter a busy forum's code to generate a link spreading the infection via google
488.
by bazzargh 13y ago
'There's an xkcd for that' may be hackneyed but really applies in this case: https://xkcd.com/1273/
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Another way to reduce the number of loops: for (int q2 = 1; q2 <= 256; q2 <<= 1) if (output * r1 * r2 * q1 * q2 == input * f1 * f2) This doesn't need a loop. Set q2 directly and test if it is a power
490.
by bazzargh 13y ago
As I understand it, Adobe used ECB mode, which means the blocks are encrypted independently. You can look at the encrypted blocks and see that two different passwords share character sequences. This is I assume what Randall is referring t
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Don't do it for me! I'm happy enough using http://ihackernews.com/ on my mobile; was just asking the question.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
There's i18n bugs in the characters you're sending - I notice you've used "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" but HN itself is "text/html; charset=utf-8" - ie you can only correctly display a subset
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by bazzargh 13y ago
You don't have to rank based on single game scores. One way to do this would be to have levels that are replayable (ie there is a number n that uniquely identifies each set of level parameters) and use chess' Elo ranking system fo
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Finding nuggets in ARC discussions(blogs.oracle.com)
2 points by bazzargh 13y ago|0 comments
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Would have is abbreviated "would've", which is pronounced similarly. I expect people get it from hearing that before seeing it written.
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Retire.js - identify JS libraries with known vulnerabilities in your application(open.bekk.no)
9 points by bazzargh 13y ago|1 comments
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by bazzargh 13y ago
There's a tool that will split your git commits into whitespace/non-whitespace pairs: https://github.com/dmnd/git-whiteout (Can't vouch for it; I just assumed that someone would have automated this by no
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by bazzargh 13y ago
It's legit because Cisco are paying the license fees (mentioned in the article)
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Wonder if this could be done for youtube, since it provides its subtitles via an api? https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_p... (and there are a plethora of yt-to-gif sites, so clearly frame
500.
by bazzargh 13y ago
As well as those (real) examples in the New Scientist, there's a long running fake correspondence section in Private Eye magazine, 'Pseudo Names'. Here's a typical, groanworthy example: Sir, In Germany, we see Pse
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by bazzargh 13y ago
As someone's already pointed out, C# strings are composed of UTF-16 codepoints not characters - this means that if you have a character outside the basic multilingual plane it'll be represented as two codepoints using a surrogate,
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by bazzargh 13y ago
And Control.Lens introduces around 20 more symbols like this. It does at times feel like reading perl without 'use English;'
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Myths of Human Genetics(udel.edu)
6 points by bazzargh 13y ago|0 comments
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by bazzargh 13y ago
"no children's books" If we don't teach children to read then the rest of the library is useless.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Arf! That can't handle people older than the Unix epoch. Unsure whether to consider this a bug in the code or in me. Never mind, I'll just head for the Carrousel.
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Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library(kmoddl.library.cornell.edu)
1 points by bazzargh 13y ago|0 comments
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by bazzargh 13y ago
One good reason would be (as he says) that it is flaky. eg how does it handle newlines, commas, tabs and non-ascii characters in data? I've had to pull dirty data between systems before, and csv as the lowest common denominator tends t
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by bazzargh 13y ago
This one made me swear a lot: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842136 ... remote login to a windows 2003 server changes the default locale, breaking servers that depend on the default locale (which of course they should
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by bazzargh 13y ago
I like the story of how Linear B was deciphered better http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22782620 - no Rosetta stone, but more like cryptanalysis; Alice Kober built frequency tables and discovered patterns which (with
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by bazzargh 13y ago
The 'offline' one I agree with, but don't think that's precluded (they have the chef recipes, so why not); but it's an option not the common case. And the last one too - we've got a similar setup, and there are

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